Creative destruction /
A Frenchman rents a Hollywood movie. A Thai schoolgirl mimics Madonna. Saddam Hussein chooses Frank Sinatra's "My Way" as the theme song for his fifty-fourth birthday. It is a commonplace that globalization is subverting local culture. But is it helping as much as it hurts? In this st...
Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Princeton, NJ :
Princeton University Press,
2002.
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Trade between cultures
- Global culture ascendant: the roles of wealth and technology
- Ethos and the tragedy of cultural loss
- Why Hollywood rules the world, and whether we should care
- Dumbing down and the least common denominator
- Should national culture matter?